SummerWrite Youth Workshops

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Pre-session: June 21-25

Ages: 5-7
Princes and Princesses in the Bayou
JY10-D1
Instructor: Lisa Johnson
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., June 21-25
$198 W&B members / $220 general public
Whatever you do, please don’t kiss the duck!!! That’s right, I said duck. Strange things might happen. We will travel to New Orleans for an adventure on the bayou, where all sorts of creepy characters will cross our paths. Music and song will be our only way back to reality. So come dressed in your favorite costume and we’ll make your dreams come true. Using “The Frog Prince” as a rough outline, we will bring characters to life in a play which will illuminate the rich history of New Orleans. Along the way we’ll play with themes of self-esteem, decision-making, and friendship while having fun with drama and music. Families will be invited on Friday for a final performance.

Ages: 8-12
Rochester at Play
JY10-D2
Instructors: Caedra Scott-Flaherty and Alexa Scott-Flaherty
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., June 21-25
$198 W&B members / $220 general public
Do you like writing skits or acting? Do you want to discover more about this great city of ours? We will travel to historical sites in Rochester, interview celebrated residents, and learn about Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Emma Goldman, George Eastman and others. Then, through playwriting, acting, improvisation and movement activities, we will work together to create a performance based on the things we have learned. Family and friends will be invited on Friday where we’ll share what we’ve created.

Week 1: June 28-July 2

Ages: 6-8
Author-Illustrator Fan Club
JY10-A1
Instructor: Jason Yungbluth
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.- Noon, June 28-July 2
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
We will read aloud and look at several examples of the wonderful picture books of some of our favorite author-illustrators. Each day will feature a different creator’s style and technique. Then, using our own imaginations, we will create picture book pages imitating their techniques with language, story, and pictures. On Friday, we will each go home with a small book that collects our tributes to these beloved author-illustrators.

Ages: 6-8
Olden Days of Wizards, Knights & Daring Damsels
JY10-R1
Instructor: Marna Rossi
TWO WEEKS, AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., June 28-July 9
$178 W&B members / $200 general public
Travel to magical times of enchantment! Enjoy stories of wizards and dragons, bold princesses and daring knights. Learn about the marvels of the Middle Ages. Through games and crafts, find out about how kids lived and had fun in castle times. Through the power of your imagination and words, create medieval adventures and act them out as skits.

Ages: 9-13
Writers & Cooks: Menus For Every Meal
JY10-C1
Instructor: Paul Jonasse
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.- Noon, June 28-July 2
$159 W&B members / $175 general public
Cook up a storm and put together your own cookbook in this busy, creative, and tasty workshop for budding young cooks and writers. Taught by a chef who is also an English teacher, this workshop will take place in a teaching kitchen. Participants will work from a full day’s menu—breakfast through evening snack—cooking, eating, and discussing dishes for one meal for each day. They will annotate and illustrate the recipes (including their own creative variations), and do a bit of taste-bud-tickling creative writing. Note: New Recipes!

Ages: 9-13
Writers & Cooks: Around The World
JY10-C2
Instructor: Paul Jonasse
AFTERNOONS: 1- 4 p.m., June 28-July 2
$159 W&B members / $175 general public
Travel the world and write your own cookbook in this busy, creative, and tasty workshop for budding young cooks and writers. Taught by a chef who is also an English teacher, this workshop will take place in a teaching kitchen. Participants will journey through five cuisines—cooking, eating, and discussing. They will annotate and illustrate the recipes (including their own creative variations), and do some taste-bud-tickling creative writing. Note: New Recipes!

Ages: 8-12
Picture This
JY10-A2
Instructors: Kaci Smith and Lisa Johnson
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., June 28-July 2
$208 W&B members / $228 general public
They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” and Rochester hosts the home of a picture giant: George Eastman. If you love to write poetry or short stories and photograph, then join us! We’ll spend a week exploring the George Eastman House, gardens, photo galleries, and permanent museum collection as inspiration for our creative writing (as well as trying picture-making methods from pinhole cameras to Photoshop). Participants will create photographic narratives with their cameras. Our pens will capture the words that help to tell the photographic story. A final presentation featuring participants’ photographic and written expressions will be displayed at a last day “art opening” exhibition. If you have your own digital camera, you may wish to bring it.

Ages: 9-12
Character Building
JY10-F1
Instructor: Debra Lewis
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, June 28-July 2
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
The heart of good fiction can be found in its characters. This week will focus on the art of making believable, lovable characters that our readers will be excited to journey with through our stories. We will explore who our characters are, what they want, and how they will change throughout the course of our stories. We will flesh them out, giving them personalities, families, and secrets, as well as physical characteristics. We will look at them in different ways, exploring dialogue and point-of-view. By the end of the week, we will have characters that are as real as you or me!

Ages: 9-12
Magic, Myths, & Monsters: Retelling International Fables and Fairytales
JY10-R2
Instructors: Caedra Scott-Flaherty and Alexa Scott-Flaherty
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., June 28-July 2
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Faeries, dragons, sprites, mermaids, leprechauns, Big Foot... who is your favorite mythological creature? We will read and act out different international fairy tales, stories and fables and even create some of our own. Together, we will create a new story full of our own magic and excitement. We’ll use storytelling, writing, acting and movement activities to create a performance of this new myth that is sure to surprise and captivate. Family and friends will be invited on Friday to experience the mythical world we’ve created!

Ages: Teen Girls
Musing Mystics: Young Women’s Yoga and Writing
JY10-M1
Instructor: Caedra Scott-Flaherty
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, June 28-July 2
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Join other young women to exercise your body and your brain. Stretch your muscles and your mind as we practice yoga, take walks through the Neighborhood of the Arts, and write about our experiences. We will experiment with poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, and share our work in a supportive environment. Relax and let the ideas flow. Your mind and body are not as separate as you think! No previous yoga experience necessary.

Ages: Teen
The Graphic Novel
JY10-A3
Instructor: Jason Yungbluth
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., June 28-July 2
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Maus. Persepolis. Runaways. Buddha. The Sand Chronicles. Sandman. Death Note. Naruto. We read them. Let’s write them. Graphic novels, though they come in various styles, share certain possibilities and limitations. By looking at various examples, we can find graphic storytelling techniques which fit the kinds of stories we want to tell. We’ll also work on dialogue and narrative writing, pacing, suspense, surprise and humor.

Week 2: July 6-9 (four day week)

Ages: 6-8
Rhyming, Rhythm, & Movement
JY10-P1
Instructor: Reenah Golden
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 6-9, Tuesday-Friday
$79 W&B members / $90 general public
Summertime means sidewalk rhymes! We will learn traditional rhymes, poetry, music, and creative movement as an introduction to performance art and the magic of the spoken word. We’ll also experiment! Activities will include playing rhyming games with movement, writing poetry to music, and acting out poems and children’s rhymes. Each participant will then create rhymes, make up movements to go with them, and teach them to the group. We’ll take home audiotapes of our rhymes at the end of the week.

Ages: 6-8
Olden Days of Wizards, Knights & Daring Damsels
(Week Two)
Instructor: Marna Rossi
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., June 28-July 9
Note: Second of two weeks. See June 28-July 2, above.

Ages: 8-12
For A Song
JY10-S1
Instructor: Doug Waterman
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 6-9, Tuesday-Friday
$79 W&B members / $90 general public
Anything can be a song! A book you love, or a day you hate. Strong feelings are the number one ingredient you need to turn everyday life into your own song. In this workshop, we’ll sharpen our songwriters’ tools and explore techniques to help us find our own song. In the end, you will have an opportunity to perform for one another and our invited guests. Musicians are very welcome, but musical training is not a must. Robert Burns couldn’t carry a tune, and he’s one of the greatest lyricists in history! We’ll share our new songs with invited guests at a performance on Friday.

Ages: 8-12
The Art of the Book: Bookbinding
JY10-A4
Instructor: Kaci Smith
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 6-9, Tuesday-Friday
$89 W&B members / $100 general public
A “do-it-yourself” approach to creating your own blank book for writing or drawing. In this class we will make our own paper, learn a variety of techniques for binding books, and study the history of the hand-sewn book. Students will create 2-3 different books utilizing these different methods and emphasis will be placed on utilizing unconventional and recyclable materials.

Ages: 11-14
Imagemaker & Storyteller
JY10-A5
Instructor: Wendy Low
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., July 6-9, Tuesday-Friday
$168 W&B members / $188 general public
Every picture tells a story…and every story paints a picture. In this class we will use techniques of professional writers and photographers to capture moments in time, movement through time, feelings from the colors, atmosphere and textures of a place, and personality in the portrait of a character. You’ll learn some advanced photo manipulation techniques and some unusual writing experiments. Perfect for graduates of Picture This and other visually inspired writers…or is that verbally inspired photographers?

Ages: Teen
Your Fantastic Novel
JY10-F2
Instructor: Debra Lewis
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 6-9, Tuesday-Friday
$79 W&B members / $90 general public
Are you not satisfied with short stories, poetry, and non-fiction? If you would like to take a longer journey with characters of your own creation, this workshop is for you. Since getting started is sometimes the hardest part, we will brainstorm together. Once we get started, there will be no stopping us! You will investigate what elements make for compelling characters and situations in a first chapter, and incorporate what you learn. We will work through the tangles that your characters and plot create for you, learning how to keep the novel going, and even how to tie it together at the end! Whether you write fantasy, sci-fi, or realistic fiction, this is a chance to grow as a writer while creating a whole world of your own! You will also get to help shape a work-in-progress currently being written by your teacher and you will begin to create your own book for your peers. Whether you have a novel-in-progress, a short story to expand, or a fresh idea, this class is for you.

Ages: High School
Teen Slam
JY10-P2
Instructor: Reenah Golden
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 6-9, Tuesday-Friday
$79 W&B members / $90 general public
Slam poetry is poetry spoken and performed in a variety of crowd-pleasing formats. Participants will study the art of the spoken word and “slam” through a series of pieces shared by the instructor and video excerpts from professional slam poets from the famous Nuyorican Café and Def Poetry Slam. During the course of the workshop, each poet will develop his or her own original piece or personal adaptation of an existing text using the group’s feedback and encouragement, and perform together as a “team.” Our slam team will then take it on the road in the fall and perform at other venues! Whether you were born to slam or just want to put more life into your presentation skills, we will be on your team!

Week 3: July 12-16

Ages: 6-8
Bienvenidos: Fun With Spanish
JY10-L1
Instructor: Henry Padrón
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
If you want to explore the Spanish language in a fun and creative way, this is the course for you! We will learn the language through songs, games, African-Caribbean drumming, and multi-media. A walking field-trip to the public market will help us learn our food words with stops at many vendor booths in the market including Maria and Juan’s Empanada Stop. This weeklong experience for children who want to learn Spanish in a fun and relaxed atmosphere promises great excitement. We will design and make a piñata for a final fiesta!

Ages: 6-8
Growing Tales
JY10-R3
Instructor: Annette Ramos
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Do you love fairytales, other worlds, and talking animals? Come hear classic fairytales with a modern twist and be inspired to write your own. Participants will learn the art of storytelling through the retelling of a classic fairytale revised with modern twists. Have fun creating new worlds, becoming animals with personality, and working with others to make a tale come to life.

Ages: 8-12
Garden Of Inspiration
JY10-M2
Instructor: Annette Ramos
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Let the seeds of your creativity come to flower in your garden of inspiration. Participants will explore local gardens in the Artwalk area and be inspired to write. We will spend one day at Ellison Park writing poetry like haiku and observing nature and giving voice to her beauty. Come sit on the grass and let the trees speak to you.

Ages: 8-12
Lightning Thief Greek Myth Readers' Theatre
JY10-R4
Instructor: Marna Rossi
AFTERNOONS: 1 p.m.-4 p.m, July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
When New York middle school student Jason Percy finds out he is a demi-god, the Greek myths come alive in a way he would never have imagined! He learns that his true father is Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea (which explains why his mother has a mysterious attraction to the color blue)! He adventures on a dangerous quest across the United States to retrieve a stolen lightning bolt and stop a war between the gods. Act out brief role-plays based on the adventures of Greek heroes. With your team, practice a Readers’ Theater skit based on a chapter of the Lightning Thief. Act out an adapted version for family and friends on the last day.

Ages: 12-14
Comedy Improvisation & Story Slam
JY10-D3
Instructor: Carol Roberts
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Have you ever seen the television show “Whose Line is it Anyway?” and thought, “I’d like to do that”? Here’s your chance! Comedy improvisation is the art of plugging audience suggestions into specific theater-game formats with the result being at best hilarious and at the least entertaining. In this experiential workshop students will learn the craft of comedy improvisation through playing warm-up and group-building games, skill-building theater games and finally the improv sketches themselves. Students will learn in a supportive atmosphere designed for experienced and inexperienced improvisers trusting and supporting their fellow players and learning to ask the audience for suggestions of how to create scenes, along with brief characterization, projection, and timing. The later part of the class each day will be a Story Slam, the art of telling true, often humorous stories from our own lives. There will be different themes to work with throughout the week.

Ages: 10-12
Writing Fiction: Let's Get Started
JY10-F3
Instructor: Debra Lewis
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
You have tons of story ideas swimming around in your head just waiting to be brought to the page. Well, it’s time to get started! In this class we will explore the basics of writing fiction and begin the process of bringing those ideas to life. Through character development, sensory descriptions, and an awareness of the basics of plot, any simple idea can be turned into a full-fledged story! It’s part magic, but it still takes work. Let’s do it together.

Ages: Teen Girls
Discovering & Empowering: Girls and Expression Through Text and Image
JY10-A6
Instructor: Kaci Smith
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
In today’s world, the female voice is sometimes lost or stifled, inducing a fear of even speaking; girls’ self-esteem are always at constant battle against the media. This workshop is designed to empower girls through photography and writing that encourages self-respect, creativity, critical thinking and collaboration. Throughout the week we will tackle the issues that are affecting girls today. With the aid of digital photography and writing, you will examine these issues through your own eyes. A majority of the course will be discussions, writing poems and narratives, as well as an emphasis of the photographic medium to foster different lines of communication. This workshop is inspired by The Girl Project (thegirlproject.org) and Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self. Students who have their own digital cameras should bring them. At the end of the week there will be a reading as well as an art show.

Ages: Teen
Writing the Young Adult Novel
JY10-F4
Instructor: Robert Ricks
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 12-16
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Have you ever felt that you could just scream from all the angst of adolescence? Well, here is your chance. We will survey great works of YA Fiction, such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Outsiders, to learn where YA literature came from, and newer works to see where it is going. You will share what you find compelling about your favorite YA novels. Most importantly, you will craft a YA story of your own. Whether you have a novel-in-progress, a short story to expand, or a fresh idea, this class is for you. You can plumb the emotional depths and nuances you see going on in teen life through a vivid character. You can use your witty pen to skewer the ridiculous behavior of adults and other teens who make life miserable. You might go on to win the Printz Award for YA!

Ages: High School
Directing for Video and Film
JY10-V1
Instructor: Neal Dhand
TWO WEEKS, AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 12-23
$205 W&B members / $227 general public
Always wanted to be a movie director? Here’s your chance! This intensive two-week course will take you through the process of creating a short film. You’ll begin by examining the script and analyzing and rewriting it with a director’s eye. You’ll learn to make shot-lists and scene breakdowns. Then, in come the actors to begin the blocking process. Students will alternate turns as the “main director” with everyone else acting as support and offering opinions. Finally you’ll get behind the camera to shoot your film. The last step will be a critique to examine footage to determine what works and what doesn’t and why. You’ll come away from this course with strong knowledge of what goes into directing a film.

Week 4: July 19-23

Ages: 7-9
Magic Tree House Merlin Mission Adventure Club
JY10-R5
Instructor: Marna Rossi
MORNINGS: 9am-noon., July 19-23
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Take part in wonderful magical adventures from the Magic Tree House Series. Join Annie and Jack as they solve problems, help people, and travel around the world and through time. Visit New Orleans and swing with the music of Louis Armstrong in A Good Night for Ghosts, a Merlin Mission book. Like Annie and Jack, we will learn about the animals and people in each environment we visit. We will read some of the latest Merlin stories (Moonlight on the Magic Flute and Leprechauns in Late Winter) and act out some of the scenes. We will visit the Eastman House Gardens for inspiration. You will illustrate stories through art activities, and with a team, create your scenes and act them out for your friends and family on the last day.

Ages: 7-9 (6 with teacher’s permission)
Meet the Magic Dragon
JY10-M3
Instructor: Donna Marbach
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 19-23
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Ready to try publishing your writing or artwork? Each participant will complete and submit one or more pieces of writing and/or art to The Magic Dragon or Stone Soup, children’s art and literary magazines, by the end of the week. Actual publication can’t be guaranteed, but special attention will be given to reviewing guidelines and procedures for submission. Already have ideas? You should come to this course with strong interest and good skills in writing and/or illustration, and are welcome to bring in projects you’ve already started. Ready to work in a more advanced setting? Most class work will be done independently with one-on-one guidance. You’ll also be introduced to a variety of two-dimensional art techniques (e.g. tissue paper mosaics, printmaking, pastels, poster paint, scratchboard, etc.) to help you select a project to complete and prepare for submission. At the end, we’ll gather samples of everyone’s work to put into a limited edition souvenir chapbook anthology of the class projects.

Ages: 8-12
Sideways Songs From Wayside School
JY10-S2
Instructor: Doug Waterman
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 19-23
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
In this workshop, we will write songs for Louis Sacher’s wacky characters and situations in his Wayside School stories: An advertising jingle for Miss Mush’s mushroom surprise? A stair-climbing chant? Miss Jewls’ mean day lament? A rhyme to help tell the Erics apart? Participants should have read at least one Wayside School book and should know who Louis, Mrs. Jewls, Miss Mush and Mr. Kidswatter are so that they will never have to write their name on the board under the word “DISCIPLINE”! Friday we’ll perform our songs; tootsie pops provided!

Ages: 8-12
Our Own Fairytales
JY10-M4
Instructor: Doug Waterman
AFTERNOONS: 1 p.m.-4 p.m., July 19-23
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
We all know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Or maybe we just think we do. Come make up your own bumps and twists to turn traditional fairytales on their heads. We’ll use songs, writing, storytelling, and acting to help us explore and reinvent old favorite stories. Family and friends are invited to our final session where we’ll share what we’ve created.

Ages: 12-14
Fabulist Fiction: Writing The Absurd As Real
JY10-F5
Instructor: Melissa Slocum
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 19-23
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Do you like creating weird stories? Are you interested in odd plots and characters and places that you don’t see in other books? Do you like placing absurd things in real life situations? Then you like fabulist writing. Come to this class to learn more about this now popular form. We will write weird and strange stories where you could have a person living with chickens or where trees talk to each other. We will try different settings and creatures to help you build unique and absurd stories—each its own new form of art. And we’ll read fabulist writers to see what other new ideas have slipped through to this realm of writing.

Ages: Teen
Creating A Chapbook
JY10-M5
Instructor: Melissa Slocum
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 19-23
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Do you have stories, poems, or personal essays that you have been wanting to put into a book? Have you always wondered what it would be like to create a book of your own? Do you love designing books? Do you want to create a collection to give to family and friends? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then this class is a fit for you. We will cover many aspects of putting together your very own chapbook including creating cover art, deciding what pieces to include, revising work, writing an introduction, finding the theme hidden in your words, and looking for places to submit your work (yes, there are places for teens too!). Some days will be spent writing new pieces to include and/or workshopping already written pieces to gain feedback. At the end of the week, you will have a draft of your chapbook. As part of our last day, we will share the chapbooks with a reading from each one. You can hear your work read out loud, something professional writers do when completing a project. Students should come with some work ready to include in the chapbooks.

Ages: High School
Screenwriting
JY10-D4
Instructor: Neal Dhand
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 19-23
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Ever wonder why your favorite film is so good, or why that movie you saw recently was so bad? We’ll break down scenes to investigate what works and what doesn’t in classic drama as well as genre films. You will learn to write the screenplays you see in motion on the big screen! This workshop will incorporate plenty of actual, hands-on writing and critique in addition to insights from classic examples. From format to exposition to character development to story, find out what happens before a movie becomes a movie. Students should come with a few simple ideas for a plot or a character in a situation. Over the course of five intensive sessions we’ll begin to develop your ideas toward the treatment and screenplay form and put you on your path to a successful script.

Ages: High School
Directing for Video and Film
(Week Two)
Instructor: Neal Dhand
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 12-23
Note: Second of two weeks. See July 12-16, above.

Week 5: July 26-30

Ages: 9-12
Percy Jackson’s Magic Pen: Lessons in Writing and Greek Mythology
JY10-R6
Instructor: Wendy Low
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-noon, July 26-30
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Percy Jackson is mighty with his sword, and his creator, Rick Riordan, is mighty with his pen. Uncover and try the methods used to weave a siren spell on you as a reader! You must prepare by reading the first two books in the series. We will mine them for models: of how to develop vivid characters, of how to hold readers across chapter breaks, and of the benefits of borrowing story elements from past literature. We’ll craft beautiful sentences and humorous wisecracks like those in Percy’s narration. Meanwhile, we’ll enjoy examining ancient Greek culture: we’ll attempt some Greek literary forms, explore the Berkeley Gallery of Ancient Art, try on tunics and helmets, design our own hoplite shields, and concoct ambrosia! We will also look at how we borrow from ancient Greece in our language, government, culture, architecture, and art—to see that ancient Greece still lives, in us.

Ages: 9-12
Manga Heroes
JY10-A7
Instructor: Marna Rossi
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 26-30
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Read manga comic books such as Naruto, Yotsuba, and Leave it to PET! Find out more about Japanese culture. We will research the creative work of students who took part in the Comic Book Project around the U.S. We will look at the words and drawings in manga books and you will have a chance to create a manga hero of your own. Give your hero a mission such as caring for the environment or bringing about world peace. Brainstorm a manga story. Make a book jacket and illustrate an episode in your hero’s story.

Ages: 11-14
City Nature Seekers
JY10-JI
Instructor: Melissa Slocum
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 26-30
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
When we think of “city,” oftentimes we see concrete and buildings, people and shops. Even though it is a city, Rochester has more than just the normal urban jungle to offer. Nature creeps, flies, and sings everywhere. And Rochester is a place to explore just that. Hike and walk along trails and through parks with a professional writer, teacher, and lover of the green. We’ll note the city’s green environment, its landscapes, and the ecosystems buried in its cracks. Through the words of other strong writers, we will learn how to record the natural world. Then after discovering our own insights about the city, we will journal and write stories and poems, recording our observations and transforming them into imaginative worlds and ideas where the landscape, plants, and animals come alive with unique details. Feel free to bring a camera or sketch pad to add visual art to the writing. We will publish our own small anthology.

Ages: 11-14
Cauldron Of Fiction: The Middle Ages
JY10-F6
Instructor: Wendy Low
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 26-30
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Why is so much fantasy set in some magical version of the Middle Ages, with castles and cottages, princes and peasants, knights and quests? Because the Middle Ages are fascinating! We will study strong kingdoms of the actual 13th and 14th centuries in three cultures: England under Edward III, Mali (Central West Africa) under Mansa Mula, and China under the first Ming Emperor, Hong. Then we will develop our own fantastical kingdoms based on medieval elements and our imaginations. We’ll draw maps, architecture, fashions, beasts, and plants. We’ll know what classes of men and women exist and how each contributes to the common welfare. We’ll decide what the climate is like, what our relations are like with neighbors, and what rules, laws, and beliefs govern society. Finally, we’ll write stories from our own well-imagined “Far Away and Long Ago.”

Ages: Teen
Keep It Real
JY10-D5
Instructor: Robert Ricks
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., July 26-30
$198 W&B members / $220 general public
Do you ever wish people would listen to what you have to say? Come learn how to create believable characters based on yourself, teens you know, or your ability to empathize imaginatively with teens you don’t know. Tell the world what it’s like to be on the front edge of adolescence. We’ll read monologues (dramatic speeches) and scenes for teens (including those written by other young people) before writing our own. We’ll take risks while we learn about acting, characterization, and voice. At the end of the workshop, we’ll perform our own pieces or choose actors from among us to let our characters speak from the stage for an audience.

Ages: Teen
Write to the Heart of Life
JY10-M6
Instructor: M. J. Iuppa
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, July 26-30
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Most poems and all personal essays start with the “I” of the beholder. Most writers start in their teens when they are both keenly observant and deeply aware of their own reactions to life. We will investigate how you, the human observer, feeler, and thinker at the heart of life, can report from the knife-edge of experience in ways that will inform and move your fellows. We will look to examples from young poets, writers, and lyricists who have opened eyes and minds over the ages. We will learn how to use sense imagery, precise words, and sound effects to make our writing more vivid.

Ages: Teen
Through My Eyes: Memoir Writing For Teens (Session 1)
JY10-N1
Instructor: Sonja Livingston
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., July 26-July 30
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
We’ll learn to write about what we know best: our own lives! We all have stories to tell. No matter how old you are, where you come from, or where you hope to go, your take on the world is unique and worthwhile. Readers are hungry to read about real-life characters and experiences. In this interactive workshop, we’ll breathe extra life into our personal stories by borrowing from the rich language of poetry and the snap and pizzazz of good fiction. Participants will respond to writing exercises and share their work in a supportive environment. We’ll also have a guest writer and plenty of opportunity to explore and find inspiration in the Neighborhood of the Arts. Bring some pocket money on Tuesday to go to Starry Nites Café and write outside while drinking something fancy!
Note: Memoir enthusiasts may repeat this class during Week 6 to generate new work.

Week 6: August 2-6

Ages: 8-12
My Name In Print
JY10-M7
Instructor: M. J. Iuppa
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 2-6
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Write, write, write! We will spend the first part of the course producing poems, stories, journal entries, and creative essays through imaginative writing prompts. Participants will be encouraged to try all genres, but will focus on the one(s) they feel most passionately about. Toward the end of the week we will work as a team to create our very own anthology. Participants will learn to make the most of their writing by sharpening their editing and revising skills. Then we will make all the decisions necessary to create a book of our own. What will it look like? How will it be organized? In the end, each participant will receive a copy of the book they helped create.

Ages: 8-12
The Art of the Picture Book: Let’s Draw and Write
JY10-A8
Instructor: Debra Lewis
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 2-6
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
In a picture book the images are just as important as the words. Do you want to both write a story and illustrate it? Take this class and learn how picture books for children are made. After studying a few picture books, we will review the basics and write a story of our own. We will then identify the illustrations we want to accompany our story and work on them. In the end, we will have a work of art that we can both see and read.

Ages: 8-12
Word On The Street
JY10-N2
Instructors: Erica Bryant and Rajesh Barnabas
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., August 2-6
$198 W&B members / $220 general public
There’s a reason why Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Peter Parker work for newspapers: it’s where the action is! Our news team will scour the streets to uncover “the scoop” and cover recent events in the Neighborhood of the Arts and in popular culture. We will read and critique articles and photographs from popular magazines, entertainment TV shows, City Newspaper, and the Democrat and Chronicle brought in by the instructor and participants. We will then decide which feature stories, personal profiles, and arts, music, dance, book, and restaurant reviews we want to write and photograph. At the end of the summer, our articles will come out in an exciting newsletter for distribution in shops and cafés along ArtWalk.

Ages: 9-12
Shakespeare & I
JY10-WI
Instructors: Alexa Scott-Flaherty & Sally Bittner Bonn
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., August 2-6
$198 W&B members/$220 general public
Shakespeare isn’t so tough–and the rewards are great! In this class we will learn not only how to “speak Shakespeare,” but also how to use all of our other senses and talents to explore the world of the Bard. We’ll take an in-depth look at one of his plays, make an Elizabethan visit, do some acting and artwork, and take a look at theaters and costumes. Let’s cook up some chaos, incite some sibling rivalry, get serious about comedy, look lightly at tragedy, and create some conflict as we construct a performance of our own! If you’re interested in inviting the great language and insights of Shakespeare into your present life, then there will be something here for you!

Ages: Teen
Fiction in a Flash
JY10-F7
Instructor: Melissa Slocum
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 2-6
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
No time to create long stories? Do you want to write a story in ten minutes? In this class, we will study and write flash fiction, looking at what makes this 1-3 page form so different from the novel and the “normal” short story. Let’s discover how rich these different story textures can become and how you can write fiction in a quick flash. The last few classes you will workshop stories begun in class. You’ll come away with an entire draft collection of pieces. And if there is time, we will create a class anthology.

Ages: Teen
We Wear the Mask
JY10-M8
Instructor: Charlie Cote
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 2-6
$99 W&B members/$110 general public
Voice in a poem or story is sometimes called a persona, the Greek word for mask, or a disguise. This workshop will help students delve into subjects that they might not explore otherwise, to free themselves to deal with difficult or surprising material. Impersonation can be liberating. We will follow the example of well-known personas in poetry and fiction, as well as engage in writing exercises to help each student develop their own imagined characters. Students will have an opportunity to get constructive feedback about the work they generate in class, as well as perform their poems in a supportive setting.

Ages: Teen
Through My Eyes: Memoir Writing For Teens (Session 2)
JY10-N3
Instructor: Sonja Livingston
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 2-6
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
We’ll learn to write about what we know best: Our own lives! We all have stories to tell! No matter how old you are, where you come from, or where you hope to go, your take on the world is unique and worthwhile. Readers are hungry to read about real-life characters and experiences. In this interactive workshop, we’ll breathe extra life into our personal stories by borrowing from the rich language of poetry and the snap and pizzazz of good fiction. Participants will respond to writing exercises and share their work in a supportive environment. We’ll also have a guest writer and plenty of opportunity to explore and find inspiration in the Neighborhood of the Arts. Bring some pocket money on Tuesday to go to Starry Nites Café and write outside while drinking something fancy!
Note: Students who took this class during Week 5 may take it again. The exercises will allow for new work to be generated.

Week 7: August 9-13

Ages: 5-7
Storywriting
JY10-F8
Instructor: Debbie Sullivan Murray
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 9-13
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Have a story stuck in your head that you can’t get out on the page? Do exciting adventures occur in your daydreams? Do you like to tell your friends all the fun things that have happened to you? Learn to organize your story using a helpful tool called a storyboard. Storyboards help you tell the story in pictures first, then worry about the words later. We will explore our stories, create a storyboard, and then move our stories to a finished book. You will walk away from this class with a book of your own that has been through the whole writing process! Turn your creative brains on and come tell us a story!

Ages: 5-7
Magic Tree House Summer Adventure
JY10-R7
Instructor: Marna Rossi
AFTERNOONS: 1 p.m.-4 p.m., August 9-13
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Take part in wonderful magical adventures from the Magic Tree House Series. Join Annie and Jack as they solve problems, help people, and travel around the world and through time. Like Annie and Jack, we will learn about the animals and people in each environment we visit. We will read some of the stories and act out some of the scenes. We will visit Ancient China, Ancient Japan, and the Australian Outback. We will visit the Eastman House Gardens for inspiration. You will illustrate stories through art activities, and with a team, create your scenes and act them out for your friends and family on the last day.

Ages: 8-12
Where's Walden?
JY10-G1
Instructors: Angela Cannon-Crothers and Edgar Brown
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., August 9-13
If meeting the class at the Gell Center
$198 W&B members / $220 general public

If attending from 740 University Avenue
$298 W&B members / $310 general public

Note: Held at the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes. A bus will run from 740 University Avenue in Rochester, leaving promptly at 8:10 a.m. and returning at 5:00 p.m. There will be some additional activities on the bus.
Summertime, sunshine, green rolling hills, wildlife, and you! Spend a week communing with nature and with the writer within you at our retreat in the Bristol Hills. Hike with professional writers and naturalists along the Finger Lakes Trail, and observe the natural environment around you. We will participate in nature art activities, both ancient and modern. Then we will create field journals, write stories, dramatic monologues, and poems probing the past, present, and future of the landscape, plants, and animals before us. We will publish our own small anthology. Please dress to hike, and pack a bag lunch each day. If you have your own camera, please bring that as well! An optional evening campfire circle and sleepover will be held on Thursday. Offered in collaboration with the South Bristol Cultural Center.

Ages: 8-12
Radio Show
JY10-D6
Instructor: Maria Gillard
TWO WEEKS, MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 9-20
$205 W&B members / $227 general public
Live radio was what people listened to for entertainment before television. CREATING a radio show is a BLAST! It involves developing characters, dialogue, and stories with sound effects. It’s composing jingles for advertising fun things. It’s music, poetry, and journalism all in one! This is a great opportunity for you to develop a variety of skills in writing, public speaking, and acting, as well as a fun way to use your imagination! Anyone who plays a musical instrument or loves to sing and is interested in writing, acting, or comedy is encouraged to attend. On the last day at 11 a.m., we will perform and record our show before a live audience. Later, you’ll get a CD in the mail!

Ages: 8-10
Word Play Workshop
JY10-L2
Instructor: Donna Marbach
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 9-13
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
All work and no play makes for a dull writer. Come stretch your language brain in the Wordplay Workshop. We will uncover magic in words (the word “four” counts its own letters: 4), learn to write anagrams and palindromes, and find many words within one word. In small groups, we’ll play games such as Boggle, Scrabble, and Hangman. We might pencil our way through a word search, a crossword puzzle, or an acrostic. We will learn some new words and adopt one or two “endangered” words. We will stretch our vocabulary, improve our spelling, and play with words by writing special kinds of poems, sketches, riddles, tongue twisters, or short-short stories. We will walk away with puzzles and facts we can use to amaze our friends and families. Most of all, we will learn that words are the key building blocks in all good writing, and have some “wordwhile” fun along the way.

Ages: 11-14
Write It! Speak It!
JY10-P3
Instructor: Sally Bittner Bonn
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-noon, August 9-13
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
What do you have to say? In this poetry and performance workshop we will explore different approaches to writing and presenting poetry. We’ll use inspiring examples of published and recorded work to help us stretch ourselves in our own art. We’ll hone our use of metaphor, image, rhythm, and alliteration, and we’ll dabble in the world of slam poetry. Each student will write several new poems during the course of the week and walk away with at least one polished performance piece. No previous experience necessary. You need only bring your pen, your voice, and your creativity.

Ages: 11-14
Creative Journaling
JY10-J2
Instructor: Maria Gillard
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 9-13
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Do you ever want to express yourself but can’t find the words? Do you ever get emotional about something and want to scream? Creative Journaling is a way to get your emotions out and look at them differently. Do you ever want to say what you really mean instead of beating around the bush? Do you like to write poems and stories about your friends and yourself? Creative journaling is for you! This explores a variety of writing exercises that lead to self-discovery. Journaling includes collaging, drawing, listening to music while finding ways to explore your inner selves! An open mind and adventure for learning will make this a wonderful experience.

Ages: Teen
Future Media
JY10-N4
Instructors: Erica Bryant and Rajesh Barnabas
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., August 9-13
$208 W&B members / $228 general public
This camp will build off traditional journalism skills—interviewing, perspective, copy editing and writing, and introduce the skills of new journalism—digital photography and videography, blogging, podcasting, and videocasts. Each day of camp will focus on a specific new journalism skill. Students will have hands-on opportunities to create their own media pieces in the various formats mentioned above: video, podcast, blog, and photo-essay. There will be media projects introduced in camp that students will have the opportunity to work on at home and beyond the camp week.

Ages: Teen
Outdoor Writers
JY10-G2
Instructors: Angela Cannon-Crothers and Edgar Brown
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., August 9-13
If meeting the class at the Gell Center
$198 W&B members / $220 general public

If attending from 740 University Avenue
$298 W&B members / $310 general public

Note: Held at the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes. A bus will run from 740 University Avenue in Rochester, leaving promptly at 8:10 a.m. and returning at 5:00 p.m. There will be some additional activities on the bus.
Summertime, sunshine, green rolling hills, wildlife, and you! Spend a week stalking the natural world! Commune with nature and with the writer within you at our retreat in the Bristol Hills. Hike with professional writers and naturalists along the Finger Lakes Trail and note the natural environment around you. We will participate in nature art activities, both ancient and modern. Then we will create field journals, and write stories, dramatic monologues, and poems probing the past, present, and future of the landscape and ecosystem before us. We will publish our own small anthology. Please dress to hike and pack a bag lunch each day. Students in this group should be prepared for longer hikes and more in-depth readings than the Where’s Walden group. We will on occasion collaborate with the younger group on some topics and field trips. An optional evening campfire circle and sleepover will be held on Thursday. Offered in collaboration with the South Bristol Cultural Center.

Ages: High School
Writing the College Admissions Essay
JY10-B1
Instructor: Wendy Low
MORNINGS: 10 a.m.-Noon, August 9-13
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Learn to write impressive essays for admission applications, the kind that wow admissions officers by what you say and how you say it and that advertise you: creative, curious, intelligent, hard-working, involved. We will analyze the 6 options for the Common Application personal essay and examine some common traps each essay question can set you. You should also bring any specific essay questions from schools where you want to apply. We will practice with the real thing and give each other feedback. By Thursday, you will turn in or email a complete draft of an essay. Follow-up feedback with the instructor will be scheduled individually for Friday.

Week 8: August 16-20

Ages: 6-8
Books! Books! Books!
JY10-R8
Instructor: Wendy Low
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 16-20
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
We all have favorite picture books. Each day we will explore the works of one or two beloved picture book authors and use them to inspire our own artworks, poems, and stories. Author-illustrators will include Arnold Lobel, Chris Van Allsburg, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Eric Carle, Faith Ringgold, Patricia Polacco, and Shel Silverstein. On the last day we will share our favorite books and our own creations with our families.

Ages: 6-8
Junie B. Jones Drama Club
JY10-R9
Instructor: Marna Rossi
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 16-20
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Read about the hilarious adventures of mischievous Junie B. We will read chapters from the Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Parks. You will have a chance to act out skits based on chapters of one of the series’ books. Write your own diary about your adventures. Make crafts related to the stories. Sing a song about Junie B. With your friends, act out a comical skit on the last day.

Ages: 8-12
Radio Show (Week Two)
Instructor: Maria Gillard
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 9-20
Note: Second of two weeks. See August 9-13, above.

Ages: 8-12
Field Guide to Sprites, Goblins & Fairyfolk
JY10-J3
Instructor: Angela Cannon-Crothers
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 16-20
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Spiderwick is not the only recorder of Fantastical Notes and Observations. Through guided imagery and visits to extraordinary local gardens, we will create our own notebooks of magical beings. Our books can include character sketches, interesting happenings in magical realms, and meanings associated with fantastic “appearances.” Learn and write all you can about goblins, familiars, fairies, pookas, and other magic folk and animals.

Ages: 9-12
Poetry, Pottery, and Paper
JY10-A9
Instructors: Amy Rau, Samantha Stumpf, & MJ Iuppa
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., August 16-20
$225 W&B and GCAE members/$245 general public
In this collaboration between Writers & Books and the Genesee Center for the Arts and Education, you’ll have a unique opportunity to merge visual arts with creative writing. You will use a press mold to create a ceramic book, write pottery-inspired poems, interview real artists, make paper, and use a letterpress. This workshop will be a real hands-on experience taught by professional artists and writers with time spent at both the Genesee Center for the Arts (on Monroe Ave in the old fire station) and at Writers & Books (on University Ave in the old police station)!

Ages: 12-16
Hogwarts Fantastical Notebook of Natural Magic and Other Things
JY10-J4
Instructor: Angela Cannon-Crothers
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 16-20
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Through Hogwarts style classes, research, games, and field trips, we will put together our own Fantastical Notebooks of Natural Magic and Other Things to enhance our stories, poetry, and journal keeping. Explore how different authors use recognized folk lore, myth and magic in their creative writing and how we can utilize it in our own. We will further our knowledge of the magical by taking classes on Viking Rune Stones, magical herbs, tree lore, fairy tales, animal totems and more to help us connect to the enchantment that surrounds us all! Bring a 3-ring binder to fill and adorn as well as your magical minds. Friday will include a graduation party with Natural Magic 101 certificates and readings which parents will be invited to.

Ages: 12-14
My Life, My Words
JY10-N5
Instructor: Debbie Sullivan Murray
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 16-20
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
By now, you’ve seen a lot of what life has to offer—the good, the bad, the exciting, and the worrisome. Why not write about it before it flies out of your head and is gone forever? Write about all of your fun and funny friends, your favorite summer place, or your least favorite restaurant (and the time you found a gruesome insect in the potatoes). Your experiences can become essays, memoirs, or even the basis for fiction. Write about your worst vacation, favorite relative, scariest moment, proudest achievement, and earliest memory. Tell the story of your life—the story that’s yours and yours alone. Join us for a week of creativity and memory. We’ll prevent your original ideas from slipping into the outer atmosphere by collecting them in an anthology to go home.

Ages: Teen
Cirque pour les Mots
JY10-L3
Instructor: Kitty Jospé
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 16-20
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Don’t be turned away by the French in the title! The metaphor of circus is to show how much words enjoy balancing acts, novel twists, turns, grammatical gymnastics. French and English have been trading words since William the Conqueror, and indeed, Chaucer could not have written his tales without his knowledge of old literary French. This course is designed to enhance understanding of language as expression, communication, and especially new thinking that jostles into play. We will experiment with metered and non-metered breath, measured in lines or syllables, and have fun with tongue twisters and homonyms. Instruction will be in English but will introduce the “sounds of French” starting with Rimbaud’s colors in vowels. We will enjoy the wit of the surrealists, the challenges of translation, including etymology and the sous-entendu. The course will provide opportunity to build new ideas for your creative English word power. We will explore rhythms, tones, silences and words put to music. No previous experience with French is necessary.

Ages: Teen
Teen Writers' Circle
JY10-M9
Instructor: Wendy Low
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 16-20
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Whether you write poetry or prose, here is your chance to share new ideas and experiment to deepen your understanding of how your writing works and what makes it powerful. Share your work for appreciation and helpful comments. Open yourself up to what your peers around the country and in the room are writing, and try new forms and techniques. No previous experience is required and all types of writing are respected.

Week 9: August 23-27

Ages: 6-8
'Give Me a Hand!' An Intro to Puppetry
JY10-D7
Instructor: Brenna Sniatecki
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 23-27
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Do you love to play pretend? Do you have fun imagining new characters? Maybe you even put on puppet shows at home. Here’s your chance to learn from a professional. You will have a great time exploring puppetry from around the world, building your own cloth hand puppets, and learning some basic puppetry techniques. On Friday you’ll have a performance to show off your new “handy” work!

Ages: 6-8
Fun With French
JY10-L4
Instructor: Kitty Jospé
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 23-27
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Explore the French language through songs, games, playground activities, a neighborhood walk, simple cooking experiments, art, music, stories, cultural holidays. We’ll experiment with hand movements in rhymes, songs, circle games and acting out the translated French text to music: Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

Ages: 8-13
Write On
JY10-J5
Instructor: Wendy Low
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 23-27
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
You know you love to write. It’s the end of the summer and school is starting. Here’s a class that will reinvigorate your writing brain and help you keep writing throughout the year! Learn to finish the stories and poems you start and to keep a journal of observations and ideas. Look at famous people’s creative journals and learn new uses for your own journal. End the summer with a writing extravaganza! Take home the inspiration and techniques to keep you going!

Ages: 8-12
Magic of Puppetry
JY10-D8
Instructor: Brenna Sniatecki
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 23-27
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
What do Jabba the Hutt, Oscar the Grouch, and the Lonely Goatherd have in common? They’re all puppets! Come explore the world of puppetry and learn about the magic behind some of your favorite puppet performances. We’ll be creating our own puppets and finishing the week with performance starring YOU!

Ages: 11-14
Creating Short Films For Broadcast
JY10-V2
Instructors: Joshua Bloodworth, Nacor Castillo
and Rajesh Barnabas
ALL DAY: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., August 23-27
$208 W&B members / $228 general public
NOTE: Meets at RCTV, 21 Gorham St
.In this collaboration between Writers & Books and Rochester Community Television (RCTV), you’ll learn how to use the visual and auditory tools of filmmaking to put across your poem, song, public service announcement, comedy bit, or story scene. You’ll learn how to use the technical resources of RCTV: studio, backdrops, studio cameras, handheld cameras, Apple G-5s with editing software. You’ll examine written scripts and treatments and analyze finished films. As a small team, you’ll produce short films for broadcast on RCTV Channel 15. Come with a poem, PSA or other short film idea. You’ll leave with a DVD of the group’s work. The work will belong to you, so if you wish to upload it to the web, you can!

Ages: Teen
The 'Zine Factory
JY10-N6
Instructor: Kaci Smith
MORNINGS: 9 a.m.-Noon, August 23-27
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Is there a topic that you have always wanted to write about, but felt too shy? Are you looking for a place to publish your art work? Maybe you want to create your own comic? This is your opportunity to write and publish your thoughts in an environment without any restriction. In The ‘Zine Factory we will explore the roots of the ‘zine, a writing practice dating back to the 1930’s! You will also create and produce your own photocopied ‘zine and participate in a ‘zine swap at the end of this workshop. Get ready to smash the status-quo and create your own non-commercial magazine!

Ages: Teen
Teen Song Project
JY10-S3
Instructor: Doug Waterman
AFTERNOONS: 1-4 p.m., August 23-27
$99 W&B members / $110 general public
Songs are everywhere. Love some? Good. Hate some? Interesting… Feel the urge to change some words, or some notes? Great! There’s a place for you in Writers & Books’ Song Project. Whether you write words, music, or both, Song Project is a place to find support, co-writers, and people ready to sing or play your song. Students can work on their own or team up with others. The only requirement is a willingness to share your work with others and a desire to take it to the next level. Come to the first session with CDs and lyric sheets for your favorite songs. If you play an instrument, bring it (keyboard on site).

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